Converting 800x600 resolution to VCD resolution

[ITmauritius]

I would like to know if there is any way of converting with good results 800x600 resolution to VCD. I was thinking of outputting the actual recording on TV using a TVO, record back using the video-in of the same card. Tedious and time consuming but the only reasonable way I found... What do you say?

[Gazorgan]

You won't get 800x600 that way. You Computers resolution has nothing to do with the video's resolution.

What resolution you capture in is a setting in your capture software. Your capture resolution has a bearing on your final product (you can't capture in 320x288 and expect to get good 720x480 DVD after encoding). Along the same lines, you need to encode what you capture, don't try and capture in the final codec.

Look through some of the capture guides.

[ITmauritius]

I don't expect to get 800x600 on a TV (except on HDTV perhaps), does anyone have some screen capture from TVO? I want to produce a VCD using AVI files obtained from a computer screen with SVGA resolution and 16bit color depth.

What's the best solution then?

[Vejita-sama]

So you already have the video in avi format on your HD and want to convert it to MPEG1 to burn as a VCD? Have you looked at:

https://www.videohelp.com/convert

There are several guides that explain how to do this. There are several programs that can do this with TMPGenc and CCE being the most popular choices. Again guides for both are to the left under convert.

[Gazorgan]

TIVO or TVO (what's TVO?). Is it something that plays through your PC like a video or are your trying to capture what you are doing on your PC (like a shot from a game or a demo of how to do something)?

Sorry for the confusion.

[ITmauritius]

TVO means TVOut. What I'm looking after is a VCD solution (capturing a software demo on a computer screen at 800x600) that can be read on a standalone VCD (352x240). I've got a document from july 1999 from Anandtech.com named "Picture This: TV-Output Comparison" where TV out of different cards were compared.. ATI Rage 128, Voodoo 3 and Matrox G400. Original captures (each weighing 2.5MB) should be found here, although I haven't checked (http://www.anandtech.com/html/ati/800x600doc.bmp, http://www.anandtech.com/html/brooktree/640x480doc.bmp, http://www.anandtech.com/html/3dfx/800x600doc.bmp, http://www.anandtech.com/html/chrontel/640x480doc.bmp).
In all cases, you can view the Wordpad button and toolbars quite clearly and you can even read text.

[Rich927]

VCD resolution is going to be 320X240 which is less than a standard VHS tape. Going from a high resolution to VCD may give you a little better image but it still going to display at 320X240. Have you thought about doing DVD's? prices have really come down and you will be much more satisfied with the results.

[ITmauritius]

Where I stay, there are MUCH more VCD players than DVDROM. I wonder if SVCD will do... I'll investigate... Any advise still welcomed.